Railroad spreader



Aug. 4, 1931. H. w. PRoTzELLr-:R

'RAILROAD SPREADER 2 Sheets-Sheet l Filed D80. 18. 1929 Aug. 4, 1931.

H. W. PROTZELLER RAILROAD'v SPREADER Filed Dec. 18. 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 j 'Wl lll,

Patented Aug. 4, 1931 A UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE I-IARRY W. PROTZELLER, OF EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA, ASSIG-NOR TO O. F. JORDAN COMPANY, F EAST CHICAGO, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA RAILROAD SPREADER Application filed December 1S, 1929. Serial No. 414,892.

Thisinvention relates to improvements in railroadk spreaders and it consists of the matters hereinafter described and more par-V ticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

5l, The primary object of the invention is to provide simple and efcientmeans, carried by the main spreader wing for forming the f breast or ballast slope line between the track and berm of a railroad embankment, which means is so disposed with respect to the wing as to be capable of adjustment to produce the desired'angularity or slope to the breast.

The above mentioned object of the invention as well as others, together with the many advantages thereof will more fully appear as I proceed with my specification;

Inthe drawings :f

Fig. lis aviewin side elevation of a railroad spreader embodying the preferred form of my invention. f

Fig.'2 is a fragmentary view in rear elevation of the bottom inner corner of the main spreader wing withthe improved shoulder forming blade operatively connected thereto. y

' Fig. 3 vis a transverse vertical sectional view through a portion of a railroad bed or embankment capable of being produced by my improved structure. s f

i is view in rear elevation of the Vshoulder forming blade embodying my inventiOn.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view through Vthe same as taken onthe line 5-5 of Fig. et.

Fig. 6 is a detail vertical sectional View through a portion of the main spreader wing rand shoulder former as takenv on the line front truck 2 is an upright wing supporting post 7 in which a carriage 8 is capable of a vertical guided, adjustable movement. 9 indicates as a whole the main spreader wing pivotally connected as at 1() to a hinge plate 11, the same being operatively connected with the carriage whereby the wing may be swung away from and in toward the car 1. The carriage includes a boom 12 and between the outer end of said boom and the top edge portion of the wing 9 is located power'cylinder means 13 whereby the wing may be swung in a vertical plane about the pivotal connection 10 with the hinge plate 11, intoI the desired angular position.

At the outer end of the wing and pivoted thereto as at 14C is a bank shaper and eXtension wing 15. Said wing may be swung into the desired angular position about the pivot 1liby means of a power cylinder 16 and asso ciated parts, carried upon the top edge portion of the main spreader wing. Said main spreader wing also carriesnear its outer bot tom end, a ditching blade 17 adjustable in a manner to form the desired depth of ditch.

The inner bottoni corner Aof the main spreader wing is cut away or bevelled oit as at 18 and associated therewith is a shoulder forming blade 19. Said blade which is prefer-v ably made as au integral casting, is in form of a plate having a straight bottom edge 20, an inner end edge 21 disposed at approximately a right angle thereto, and a top edge 22 which tapers from a cut away inner corner 23, downwardly toward the outer end corner 24 of the blade which is rounded to meet the bottom edge of the blade. Such a blade which is best shown in Figs. l and 5, has a fiat front face 25 and a heavily ribbed rear face 2G, theY latter facebeing engaged with the front face of the main spreader wing when assembled in place withr respect thereto.

Adjacent the outer rounded corner 24 of the blade, near the tapered top edge 22 is located a hole 2T through which a pin 28 eX- tends to pivotally connect said blade to the wing 9 at a point adjacent the junction of the 'bottom edge thereof andy the rounded' f outer'end corner 24 thereof. The blade is pro-l vided with two sets of holes 29 and 30 respectively disposed on arcs concentric with the opening 27. Fixed to the rear ribbed face of the blade in line with the holes 29 is an arcuate guide plate 31 having holes 32 therein disposed to register with the holes Q9 in the blade. Said guide is bolted at its bottom end to a seat 33 provided therefor on the rear face of the blade and the main portion of said guide above its bottom end is spaced from the rear face of the plate a distance substantially equal 'to theV thickness of the main spreader wing. A pin 34 is adapted to be inserted through the desired registering openings 29 and 32 and through an opening in the spreader wing arranged to be brought into line therewith.

A A second pin-35 is employed in connection with the openings 30 and an opening in the swing, to assist the pin 34 invlocking the blade -in two different positions. The second mentioned pin is precautionary and is adapted to assist in holdingthe .blade in its uppermost adjusted position as Vwhen the spreader Y the breast or ballast slope 38. The angularity of thisbreast or slope, of course, is determined by the position ofthe blade 19. Thus as different railroads specify different slopes or breast angularities, any slope or breast Aangularity within reason may be produced with the aid ofv my improved spreader construction.Y Again the extension or bank shaper 15 may be adjusted to form the desired bank 39 to the outside of the ditch',

Tochange the angularity ofthe breastor j slope it is only necessary to remove the locking pin associated with the shoulder forming blade and then swing the same up or down to give the desired angularity and then said` blade is reloclred. The shoulderV forming blade is strong and rigid and with it, the desired breast angularity is readily attained.

While in describing my invention, l have referred in detail to the, form and arrangement of the parts thereof, the same is to' be considered merely as illustrative so that l do not wish to be limited thereto except as Vmay be specifically pointed out in the'appended claims. Y

l claim las my invention: 1. A railroad spreader embodying therein a car, a spreader Wing operatively connected and swingably adjustable in the plane of the wing to dene the ballast breastrfforining edge VAfor saidwing at'said corner..

3. A railroad spreader. embodying therein a car, a spreader wingk operatively ,connected thereto and a ballast breast forming blade pivoted at one eiid'to the front side of thel wing, a guide carried by said blade to engage the rear side of the wing and means providing a pin and hole adjustment for the other end of said blade with respect to said wing to hold the blade in the desired angular position. y

4. A. railroad spreader embodying therein acar, a spreader wing operatively connected .thereto and having a cut away portion at its inner bottom corner, a member associated with said cutaway portion andpivoted at f one end to the front side of the wing, a guide lined to said blade and engaging the rear side of the wing, there being registering holes in said blade and guide respectively disposed on lan arc concentric with the pivotal axis of said blade and pin adapted to be inserted through desired registering openings in said blade and guide respectively and through said wing to lock the blade in the desired angular position. i

5. A shoulder forming blade for a railroad spreader comprising a fiat substantially seg- Vmental-plate like member relatively wide at one end and tapering along its top edge toward the other end and having an opening in said other end and a plurality of openings in said wide enddisposed in an arc concentric with respectto said opening in said other end there also being a second plurality of `Vopenings disposed in an arc smaller than the iirst mentioned one and also concentric,

arcuate and are arranged in pairs with a pair of such ribs for each set of said'pluralities of openings. Y

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, this 12th day of December, 1929.

. HARRY W. PROTZELLER. f 

